In this assignment we were asked to make a fakebook and twist of a historical figure. I chose John F. Kennedy. He was the 35th president of the USA and he is my favorite president. He was a good president and very smart. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas Texas. Kennedy was famous for his quotes and I think he would have used Facebook and Twitter to post his quotes or anything interesting going on during his presidency. Here is his Fakebook and Twister.
This 3 star assignment was to create a fake Facebook and Tweet for a historical person. I chose to make a profile for Sigmund Freud. He had so many achievements and accomplishments that Facebook and Twitter would have been a great way to socialize and gets his ideas across. Now a days people use these networks to boast about their lives, well Sigmund Freud would have had many posts on his accomplishments and awards, as well as so many interesting arguments and with his fellow friends on record about all their theories.
Check out Sigmund Freud’s Fakebook and Twister!
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I need to play around with a more text-heavy site so I can play with all the colors and fonts, etc.! I’ve used a lot of HTML before but since I was on a time crunch I just dawdled around Hackasaurus because Firebug wasn’t working for me at alllllll. Good stepping stone for upping up my blog! Huzzah!
A 3-Star Google History Maps Story: Use Google Maps to tell a story of historical or literary figure! The only rules are that you have to use Google Maps proper in order to tell your story, and post it here. For examples see:http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/ as well as Google Lit Trips
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This was so much harder to do even though I had a Video Creator to use.
The Make A Story Out of Search two-star assignment (Use Google Search Stories Video creator to create a narrative out of a search.) was really testing my limits on storytelling. I feel a bit dry after taking in so much over the weekend that my output of information seems limited. I searched, ha, a lot about my own identity as a believer in Christ and am finally finding out a lot of things that I need to work on, but one thing is for certain: I am enough and I am loved.
This has been a weird week where I have just been bombarded by self-reflection and it’s been a trying week to dig through my past, present and future and trying to distinguish the essence of my actual self. Who am I really? Where am I really? What reality am I going to be living in?
I decided to be the first to try the “Three Moon Wolf Stories” assignment from the ds106 assignment database. I remember when the three moon wolf shirt became a little meme on the internet and decided to find other products in the same vein. I had read an askreddit post where they discussed how HDMI cables could be ridiculously priced (I bought mine for $0.50).
Here is the AudioQuest “Diamond” HDMI cable.
I used the X-Ray goggles tool to modify an existing amazon review on the product’s page and just edited each individual part. The other reviews on that page are great as well and I highly recommend you all read them.
4/5 Web Stars down. This is by far my least favorite thing we’ve done this year. Looking forward to next week, though!
For the Google History Maps Story assignment I chose to depict the Oregon Trail. I’m a history major focusing on US History and to me for this assignment it was obvious to portray the Oregon Trail, one of the most famous treks in US history. I was not able to use every point in the trail because many of them don’t exist anymore, so I had to fudge it a little and get to the closest point possible. Looking at it on google maps its amazing people were able to make the journey across the country without cars, air conditioning, Holiday Inns, and McDonalds.
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Storytelling within the web! This assignment would have been really fun if I didn’t have a massive case of writer’s block when I decided to get down to it. I decided to remix a cnn webpage as if the coming hurricane-apocalypse mix was going to miss the east coast.
That’s just part of the work I had done. I used the hackasaurus X-Ray Goggles tool that was suggested on the assignments page. From there, I just made all of my changes (which were all text). Here’s the actual page. I followed @cogdog’s post for guidance in uploading the actual page.
